· Public charity
The Business for Good Foundation Inc
Business for good invests in people to build better businesses, stronger communities, and a more equitable world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $899,619 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,067,611 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $167,992 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $483k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $378k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $185,416 |
| THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| GOODWAY GOURMET LLC | $68,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION | $55,000 |
| MISSION ACCOMPLISHED TRANSITION SERVICES | $40,000 |
| THE GIVING CIRCLE INC | $35,400 |
| FULLNESS OF JOY PHOTOGRAPHY | $25,440 |
| MAESTRA MUSIC INC | $25,000 |
| ALBANY CAN CODE INC | $25,000 |
| PALACE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| FRANK CHAPMAN MEMORIAL INSTITUTE INC | $25,000 |
| PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC | $23,500 |
| CAPITAL REGION CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $23,400 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY | $20,000 |
| YOU INC | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BTBLACK THEATRE UNITED INC2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +224% · 48% of their budget
- GIGIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION2× · 2023–2024 · $91k · revenue +23%
- MAMission Accomplished Transition Services Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ABAlbany Black Chamber of Commerce Foundationone grant, 2023 · $176k · revenue -76%
- KSKINGDOM SERVICES GLOBAL OUTREACH MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $148k
- VCVETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Community capital is a nonprofit lender that has revitalized communities and transformed lives in the mid-hudson valley, bronx and fairfield county, ct for 36 years. our mission is to foster economic opportunity for underserved individuals…
Leadingage new york represents not-for-profit, mission-driven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community…
As a new york city based nonprofit, we're dedicated to transforming the health and well-being of our communities through inclusive and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.
In 1984, saratoga bridges opened the first accessible community-based home in the county for people with developmental disabilities. subsequently, our residential program has grown tremendously. our goal is to teach residents to become…
The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…
To preserve, enhance and advance commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, youth, civic, cultural and general interest of the political subdivisions and geographical locations where its members are located; to promote and expand…
To improve the physical, mental, and emotional health of veterans and service members with post-traumatic stress by providing a healing, equine- assisted experience utilizing off-the-track thoroughbreds.
The corporation was formed to operate various programs to assist in the development of the mentally and physically disabled. we assist the people we serve through a continuum of service that fosters community participation and personal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate Ny Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BLACK THEATRE UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Albany Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mission Accomplished Transition Services Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Saratoga Regional YMCA ↗
- Who funds RISE HOUSING AND SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK CHAPMAN MEMORIAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds JAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAESTRA MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE180 INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY CAN CODE INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL ACRES HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSES OF SARATOGA INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · The Mitzen Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Carl E Touhey Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Wsb Family Foundation · The Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Business for Good Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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